The Good, The Bad, and The What!?

Mar 07 2025 180 ep. 115 mins

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A weekly film podcast hosted by Ryan Oliver and Chris Thomas, dedicated to discussing the "good," "bad," and "what!?" films of a given subgenre, theme, motif, or filmography.

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GBW #173: KISS of Death (Runaway / Never Too Young to Die / Wanted: Dead or Alive)

Mar 07 2025 191 mins

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Jordan, Ryan, and Chris stumbled into three mid-eighties actioners that all feature KISS bassist Gene

GBW #172: Entertained to Death (Stay Tuned / Last Action Hero / Jumanji)

Feb 27 2025 190 mins

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Chris, Jordan, and Ryan discuss three films about being transported into a game, television program,

GBW #171: Cold Blooded (Blood Tracks / Iced / Trapped Alive)

Feb 20 2025 253 mins

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Ryan, Jordan, and Chris discuss three winter-set slasher films with 1985's "Blood Tracks,&qu

GBW #170: Dark Romantasy (The Hunger / Titane / Your Monster)

Feb 14 2025 214 mins

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, for Valentine's Day, Jordan, Chris, and Ryan dive into three films that generously could all fit

GBW #169: Monster Mash (The Mummy [1999] / The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / Van Helsing)

Feb 07 2025 192 mins

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!This week, Chris, Jordan, and Ryan dive into three late-90's/early-aughts monster-mash adventure films with 1999's "The Mummy," 2003's "The League

GBW #168: Cage Match Vol. 4: The Nickster! (Wild at Heart / Bringing Out the Dead / Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans)

Jan 30 2025 258 mins

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more! This week, Ryan, Jordan, and Chris start off by paying their respects to the late, great David Lynch before get

GBW #167: Stunt Set Boulevard (Shadow of the Dragon / Parole Violators / L.A. Wars)

Jan 24 2025 257 mins

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more! This week, Jordan, Chris, and Ryan truly return-to-form after this terrible week (and year so far, frankly) to

GBW #166: Top 10 Films of 2024

Jan 17 2025 159 mins

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more! This week, before we kick the episode off proper, all of us from the GBW Podcast would like to point listeners

GBW #165: Quiver on the Set (Wes Craven's New Nightmare / Shadow of the Vampire / Lux Æterna)

Jan 09 2025 124 mins

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more! This week, Ryan, Jordan, and Chris discuss three horror films about making a horror film where real terrors start happening behind-the-scenes wit

GBW #164: New Year, New Me (Big / 13 Going on 30 / 17 Again)

Jan 02 2025 141 mins

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more! This week, to ring in the new year, Chris, Jordan, and Ryan discuss three films about life-changing, body-altering wishes with 1988's "Big," 2004